“Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” is a Patti LuPone classic, a Madonna career-changer, a standard of the American stage, and now… yet another symbol of Rachel Berry’s haughty elitism. Yep, Glee, Lea Michele, and — strangely — Chris Colfer are attacking Andrew Lloyd Webber’s salute to Eva Peron, and the audio is ready for your constructive criticism and/or scoffs and/or LGBT sympathies.
I take it the awkwardly overlapped vocals are justified in the episode, because they’re a little jarring as is. Otherwise? It’s a cute cover. I’ve railed against Glee in the past, but I think its showtune renditions are often novel. Retooling stage standards for a pop audience is an excellent idea, and a much better one than re-recording Billboard singles with watered-down Kidz Bop vocals. You’ll remember that the show couldn’t add any chutzpah to Madonna’s dance hits, but here, Ryan Murphy’s henchmen infuse the Material Girl’s big Broadway ballad with youthful (and believable) earnestness.
What do you think? Should Glee always stick to the stage? Or should it continue adding T-Painful AutoTune to radio jams?
Glee (Rachel & Kurt): ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ [YouTube]
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